Are you proud of your district leaders for bringing fresh, successful ideas to your school community? Would you like to see them get recognition for their innovations? Then please consider nominating your local standout leaders for Education Week's "Leaders to Learn From" special section. We are soliciting nominations from readers for this supplement that will run in February of next year. In this pullout report, we plan to publish profiles of: Superintendents who have forged new routes to higher student achievement; Finance directors who have devised novel strategies to stretch district dollars; Curriculum directors with effective outside-the-box methods for improving ...

"More teaching, less testing" is the hue and cry of many parents across New York City and New York State, who are organizing against what they consider excessive use of standardized testing in public education, and the time it takes away from learning.